Sabina Murray

Sabina Murray
Sabina Murray
	Murray in 2019
Born	1968 (age 55–56)
Occupation	Screenwriter; novelist;
Nationality	Filipina-American
Education	Mount Holyoke College (BA); University of Texas at Austin (MA)

Sabina Murray (born 1968) is a Filipina-American screenwriter and novelist. She currently is a professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Background and career

The daughter of an American father and a Filipina mother, Murray grew up in Australia, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines. She received her B.A. in art history from Mount Holyoke College in 1989 and her M.A. in English and creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. She also completed post-graduate study in fiction from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. She has previously been a Roger Muray Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (Andover, Massachusetts) and was published in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, and the New England Review. She was also the fiction judge for the Drunken Boat's First Annual Panliterary Awards.^{[citation needed]}^[1]

Murray currently lives in western Massachusetts, where she is on the fiction faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst (along with Jeff Parker, Edie Meidav and Noy Holland). She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.^[2]

Several major awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2003).
A Carnivore's Inquiry, was named a "Best Book of the Year" by The Chicago Tribune.
Fellowship from the Michener Center at The University of Texas, Austin
Bunting fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Nominated for the Best First Screenplay Award (Independent Spirit Awards 2005)
Guggenheim Fellowship 2007

Slow Burn (Ballantine Books, 1990)
The Caprices (Mariner Books, 2002)
A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove/Atlantic, 2004)
Forgery (Grove/Atlantic, 2007)
Tales Of the New World (Grove/Atlantic, 2011)
Valiant Gentlemen (Grove Atlantic, 2016)^[3] (a historical novel based on Irish revolutionary Roger Casement's friendship with Herbert Ward and his wife Sarita Sanfor)
Muckross Abbey and Other Stories (Grove/Atlantic, 2023)

^ "Drunken Boat | 7 | Spring 2005". www.drunkenboat.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
^ "About The Common | The Common". www.thecommononline.org. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
^ Upchurch, Michael (2016-10-27). "' Gentlemen': a superb novel about Irish patriot Roger Casement". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-03-14.